South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Tuesday ruled against Vodacom. Please, call me Inventor Nkosana Makate has previously rejected an offer of R47 million. Sowetan LIVE report.
“The end is near,” Makate said after the verdict was handed down, the newspaper reported.Vodacom will have to compensate Please, call me– Ideaman Nkosana Makate will receive between 5 and 10 per cent of the gross revenue generated by the service over the past 18 years, plus interest. IOL report.
According to court documents, Vodacom has 30 days to determine reasonable compensation for Makate.
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In February 2022, Vodacom was ordered to increase the initial offer it made to the inventor. This reportedly follows Makate's refusal to agree to Vodacom's R47-million offer, which came after being embroiled in a legal battle for more than two decades.
According to the publication, Please, call me (PCM) Makate came up with the idea after struggling to communicate with his current wife, who was in a long-distance relationship at the time.
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Details of the battle between PCM inventors and network providers
In 2009, former Vodacom chief executive Alan Nott-Craig was also accused of trying to steal credit from Nkosana Makate. P.C.M. inventions in his autobiography the second is nothing, EWN report. Meanwhile, the South African inventor was said to be demanding a whopping R9 billion for his invention instead of the R47 million offered by Vodacom.
The Pretoria High Court in 2012 also agreed that Vodacom's offer was unreasonable, it added. Vodacom now needs to decide on new offers that will satisfy both service providers and inventors.
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